Bug#980416: ITP: jquery-i18n-properties -- lightweight jQuery internationalization plugin

[Xavier <yadd@debian.org>]

Le 19/01/2021 à 11:58, Mike Gabriel a écrit :
> Hi Xavier,
> 
> On  Mo 18 Jan 2021 22:24:01 CET, Xavier wrote:
> 
>> Le 18/01/2021 à 21:38, Mike Gabriel a écrit :
>>> Package: wnpp
>>> Severity: wishlist
>>> Owner: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>
>>> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,
>>> debian-edu-pkg-team@lists.alioth.debian.org
>>>
>>> * Package name    : jquery-i18n-properties
>>>   Version         : 1.2.7
>>>   Upstream Author : Adrian Fish <adrian.r.fish@gmail.com>
>>> * URL             :
>>> https://github.com/jquery-i18n-properties/jquery-i18n-properties
>>> * License         : Expat
>>>   Programming Lang: Javascript
>>>   Description     : lightweight jQuery internationalization plugin
>>>
>>>  Lightweight jQuery plugin for providing internationalization to
>>> JavaScript
>>>  from ‘.properties’ files, just like in Java Resource Bundles. It loads
>>>  and parses resource bundles (.properties) based on provided language
>>>  and country codes (ISO-639 and ISO-3166) or language reported by
>>> browser.
>>>  .
>>>  This jQuery plugin is a required dependency for the already uploaded
>>>  OpenBoard (at the time of testing and packaging, jquery-i18n-properties
>>>  had been in Debian, however, it got removed some months ago which did
>>>  not catch my intention).
>>>  .
>>>  Thus, re-uploading (with a much newer upstream version).
>>
>> This library seems unmaintained: last commit 4 years ago. I don't think
>> it's a good thing to upload such library in Debian.
> 
> 
> I am aware of this. Rather than sneaking in the code (it is bundled in
> OpenBoard upstream's Git repo), I'd prefer to ship
> jquery-i18n-properties it a separate package in Debian.
> 
> During the Debian 12 release cycle I will need to bring up the topic of
> many many old and unmaintained Javascript / jQuery dependencies /
> bundled code portions in OpenBoard. I hope to get OpenBoard upstream to
> a point that they either take over those Javascript projects and
> maintain them or that they drop the dependencies.
> 
> For the meantime, I'll be happy to keep jquery-i18n-properties
> up-to-date in Debian as pseudo-upstream. (I could also fork the upstream
> Git repo on Github, but for now, I'd prefer to use the existing Github
> repo as upstream).

Hi,

it was just a warning, do as you see fit ;-)

Best regards,
Xavier